Geographical Knits (Yarns Like Lochs) |

Yesterday's post looked at the work of two Scottish artists, so let's remain in Scotland for another day and another comparison. Though visiting a loch on a rare sunny day can be a charming experience, weather can be pretty inclement even on a summer day, with a hazy mist wrapping up the woods, tingeing in neutral tones the intense green of the forests and the muddy green of the water.

This view of Loch Lomond, the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area, containing also around thirty islands, is a perfect example. In this view white/grey tones alternate to the green shades of the loch's “bonnie, bonnie banks”.

Millefili moved from a "Scottish inspiration" for some of its A/W 2013-14 yarns. The colour combination of this sample (see front and back in the picture) featuring three different yarns – "Loch Ness" (the white polyamide, wool, cotton, viscose and cashmere yarn – extremely soft), "Splash" (the blueish/grey wool, alpaca and acrylic yarn) and "Miao" (the angora and polyamide yarn integrating tiny dots of colour) – makes me think about the "Loch Lomond palette", while the stitches somehow seem to evoke the islands scattered around the lake. Anybody up for geography-inspired yarns/collections?